Title
Husher patent notebook (#1267)
Catalog Number
102722975
Type
Document
Description
Describes patentable ideas in the areas of chip assembly, a flip-flop circuit implemented in ion implanted injection logic (I3L), and digital watch chips. Several of these are transcribed from the author’s handwriting for ease of reading by his manager Tom Longo and stapled to the pages of the book.
Date
1970-10-09-1974-01-31
Author
Husher, John D.
Biographical Notes
John Durbin Husher received a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1958. He worked on transistors at Bell Avionics in 1958. In 1959 he moved to the Youngwood, Pennsylvania, Power Transistor manufacturing facility of Westinghouse where he developed an early form of integrated circuit called a Functional Electronic Block (FEB). In 1966 Husher joined Sprague Electric in Worcester, Massachusetts, as General Manager responsible for establishing an IC manufacturing capability. He joined Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968 as Director of the Digital Integrated Circuits operation and 1970 was responsible for establishing the Linear Integrated Circuits group as the Analog Division. In 1982 he joined analog IC manufacturer Micrel Semiconductor Inc. as Vice President and General Manager. He remained with the company for 20 years through the IPO and subsequent growth until he retired in 2002.
Publisher
Fairchild Semiconductor
Extent
9 dated entries over 19 pages.
Dimensions
12 x 10 inches
Patents
The author is named as inventor on 26 U.S patents. None of these patents are assigned to Fairchild.
Category
Notebooks
Collection Title
Fairchild Semiconductor notebooks and technical papers
Credit
Gift of Texas Instruments Incorporated
